The New Advanced Society

13An Investigation into COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Shubhangi V. Urkude¹*, Vijaykumar R. Urkude², S. Vairachilai³ and Sandeep Kumar Panda⁴

¹ICFAI Business School, ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad, India

²Vignan’s Institute of Management and Technology for Women, Hyderabad, India

³CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

⁴IcfaiTech, ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education, Hyderabad, India

Abstract

Pandemic of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) has put tremendous pressure on the people of different localities, states and countries. In a short span of time, it spread all over the world. This has affected the social life of people by enforcing them to stay at home and keep social distance. Many developed countries were also not able to handle the situation even though all resources were available with them. This chapter discussed about the symptoms of COVID-19, precautionary measures, ways of spreading the Coronavirus, and technologies used to fight COVID-19. This also discussed about the impact of COVID-19 on business, financial market, supply side, demand side and international trade on Indian economy.

Keywords: Corona virus, pandemic, financial market, COVID-19, symptoms

13.1 Introduction

COVID-19 is an acronym for Coronavirus Disease-19. This belongs to the large family of virus. It is caused due to severe acute respiratory syndrome. This kind of virus causes normal cold to the most chronic diseases like Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) ...